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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20

People

Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 59
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 9
Brigi Rafini age 6
Choe Yong-rim age 29
Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani age 3 months
Victor Khristenko age 2
Grégoire Kayibanda age 35
Slavica Đukić Dejanović age 8
Lojze Peterle age 11
Samuel Schmid age 12
Joseph Deiss age 13
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 27
T. V. Soong age 68
Phumtham Wechayachai age 5
Hamadi Jebali age 10
Tito Okello age 45
Vitold Fokin age 27
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 34
Tallis Obed Moses age 5
Do Muoi age 42
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke age 40
Chung Il-kwon age 42
Jung Hong-won age 15
Ismail al-Azhari age 59
Raif Dizdarević age 32
Sulejman Tihić age 8
Vo Chi Cong age 47
W. T. Cosgrave age 79
Jean Rey age 57
Ajay Banga age 0 months
Lloyd Bentsen age 38
Choe Yong-gon age 59
Jisaburō Ozawa age 73
Ralph Abernathy age 33
David Elazar age 34
Sylvia Rivera age 8
Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark age 46
Mark Phillips (born 1948) age 11
Ralph Northam age 2 months
Wang Zhen (general) age 51
Frank Jack Fletcher age 74
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 72
Tajuddin Ahmad age 34
Luis García Meza Tejada age 30
Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré age 11
Jamil Mahuad age 10
Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz age 7
Hazem Al Beblawi age 23
José Napoleón Duarte age 34
Tiit Vähi age 12
Mart Siimann age 13
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 17
Negasso Gidada age 16
Peter M. Christian age 12
Rafael Paasio age 56
Johannes Virolainen age 45
Georgios Rallis age 40
Raimundo Pereira age 3
Forbes Burnham age 36
István Dobi age 60
Charles Konan Banny age 17
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 16
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 74
Ali Zeidan age 8
Abd al-Hamid Dbeibeh age 9 months
Joseph Bech age 72
Ċensu Tabone age 46
Prithvirajsing Roopun age 6 months
Nahas Angula age 16
Hammer DeRoburt age 37
Surya Bahadur Thapa age 31
Jim Bolger age 24
Daouda Malam Wanké age 13
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara age 10
Ernest Shonekan age 23
Muhammad Junejo age 27
Diogo de Freitas do Amaral age 18
Vasco Gonçalves age 38
Alphonse Massamba-Débat age 38
Kenny Anthony age 8
Ong Teng Cheong age 23
Maria das Neves age 1
Thanin Kraiwichian age 32
Philip "Brave" Davis age 8
Luis Herrera Campins age 34
Manuel Odría age 62
Nur Hassan Hussein age 21
Goh Kun age 21
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 35
C. R. Swart age 65
Marais Viljoen age 44
Sicco Mansholt age 51
François-Xavier Ortoli age 34
Alistair Darling age 6
Jack Lew age 4
Mark Milley age 1
Hugh Thompson Jr. age 16
Essam Sirius age 33
Jamshid Amouzegar age 36
Kamal Jumblatt age 42
Husband E. Kimmel age 77
Borisav Jović age 31
Jalaluddin Haqqani age 20
Boris Gromov age 16
Robert Cailliau age 12
Félicien Kabuga age 26
Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland age 75
Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria age 76
Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester age 13
Mike Beebe age 12
Asa Hutchinson age 8
Bill Weld age 14
Jon Corzine age 12
Phil Murphy age 2
George Allen age 7
Charlie Baker age 3
Svetozar Marović age 4
Midge Ure age 6
Lubomír Štrougal age 35
Louise Lake-Tack age 15
Raúl Alberto Lastiri age 43
Roberto Marcelo Levingston age 39
José María Guido age 49
Pierre Harmel age 48
Said Musa age 15
Kimon Georgiev age 77
Norodom Ranariddh age 15
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla age 59
José María Figueres Olsen age 4
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 58
Jaime Roldos Aquilera age 19
Kamal Ganzouri age 26
Alfredo Cristiani age 12
Andres Tarand age 19
Edward Akufo-Addo age 53
Kofi Abrefa Busia age 46
Michael Stasinopoulos age 56
Alfonso Portillo age 8
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 23
András Hegedüs age 37
Géza Lakatos age 69
Þorsteinn Pálsson age 12
Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz age 46
Ahmed Chalabi age 15
Amadou Gon Coulibaly age 9 months
Patrick Allen age 8
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 39
Viggo Kampmann age 49
Louis Beel age 57
Jelle Zijlstra age 41
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah age 18
Gyude Bryant age 10
Baghdadi Mahmudi age 14
Arnoldo Alemán age 13
Wasim Sajjad age 18
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 65
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 20
Theodor Stolojan age 16
Manea Mănescu age 43
Nureddin al-Atassi age 30
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar age 47
Hussein Arnous age 6
Miguel Trovoada age 22
Yen Chia-kan age 54
Khuang Aphaiwong age 57
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 27
Edward Natapei age 5
Nguyen Huu Tho age 49
Mieczysław Rakowski age 33
Luis González Macchi age 11
Lee Nack-yon age 6
Nikola Špirić age 3
Ali Saibou age 19
John A. Costello age 68
Jack Lynch age 42
Willy Claes age 21
Rauf Orbay age 78
Martin Dempsey age 7
Nigel Lawson age 27
Harold Brown age 32
Alexander Vandegrift age 72
Archduke Joseph August of Austria age 87
Takahito, Prince Mikasa age 44
Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia age 42
Aspasia Manos age 63
Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz age 23
Andris Bērziņš (prime minister) age 8
George Voinovich age 23
Evan Bayh age 3
Mike DeWine age 12
Larry Hogan age 3
Ken Starr age 13
John Profumo age 44
Thomas Gage age 241
Juan José Arévalo age 55
Ali Kafi age 31
Eduardo Camaño age 13
Michael Jeffery age 21
Reinhold Mitterlehner age 3
Hubert Pierlot age 75